Monique de Roux really begins to paint from the end of the 1970s, representing dark visions with mannequins, unmoving people and birds in cage. In the 1980s, a four-year stay in Panama completely turns her painting from dusk into a chromatic explosion. It is the starting point of a continuing experiment on pure colors, their vibration, by the use and the combination of different mediums (oil, pastel, tempera, watercolor, gouache, pencil).

Her archetypal scenes show characters living at the pace of simple needs in the middle of a luxuriant and impenetrable nature. This exotic elsewhere evokes a distant temporality, somewhere between the world of dreams and the one of an awareness barely recovered. Equatorial landscapes and languorous inner minds are linked in an esoteric synesthesia, a troubling dissonance. Like distant echoes to Piero della Francesca and Henri Rousseau, the paintings by Monique de Roux appear like mental projections. Her familiar visions, almost childish, seem to release the matter of recollection and give shape to an intuition of deep and brilliant melancholy, an essence of eternity.

Graduated from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris and from the Real Academia de Bellas Artes San Fernando in Madrid with a specialization in printmaking, Monique de Roux has been the recipient of several prizes for her prints. Her work is part of many public and private collections: National Library of Spain, National Museum of Chalcography in Madrid, Museum of drawing in Sabiňanigo, Spanish Museum of Contemporary Printmaking in Marbella, Mapfre foundation….